Most of those things are better without videos anyways. So much wasted time to get to the point.

As for documentaries... Are good ones actually on YouTube?

I'll never go there. Paid is a no way situation.

Same. That ole "You seem to be using a proxy service" text served as a nice break

Must have been temporary. Pipepipe displayed a message saying ~"youtube has blocked this ip", but it's working now.

I never paid and have been using NewPipe for the past 6+ years.

Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.

one option

Dailymotion

(www.dailymotion.com)

hell of a lot less censorship, and better video quality there as well.

I forgot about dm. I used to watch dm way more than yt back in the day. Thanks for the reminder!

All they need that I see is missing, is a way to discover / search everyone from any instance. Like, a consolidated / federated search.

Seems like its already happening.

Yeah, for at least 6 months.

Not precisely what you're after but
https://sepiasearch.org/

Now you'll actually get a pop-up claiming "click here to find out why" in regards to the slowness.

So you prefer ad supported content?

Who pays for the servers? Because if even big platforms like Signal sometimes struggle to pay the bills, in part because they spend a lot on their servers, then it’ll be dozens of times worse with video hosting

There exists a massive, global network of websites that are all easily searchable through various means.

I look up and view similar topics to you and never use YouTube for them.

Try searching the internet as a whole!

"I want endless curated content for FREE! NO ADS. NO PAY. ONLY CONTENT."

This guy, probably.

Probably also thinks the minimum wage is theft.

Why be an asshole? Yes I like free I also make things for free. Not everything has to cost.

For ongoing series I like I support directly, like anyone else. Not the platform.

But to charge up front for who knows what? Nope.

Content creators. It's hard to host everyone's videos, and it benefits monopolists to imply that doing so is necessary, as it prevents new entrants. It's not nearly as hard to host your own server (or pay for it to be hosted). It becomes harder when you suddenly become popular, a situation which Peertube explicitly compensates for by sharing the distribution effort between viewers, which scales with popularity.

Signal makes it's own bed like YouTube by being a single centralised server for everyone. Nobody ever asks "who pays for the servers" when it comes to Matrix or XMPP

I've gotten that before too